WE LOOK FORWARD TO GREETING YOU ALL AT THIS YEARS EVENT

The Marianne McIntyre Memorial

International Ballet Scholarship

The Marianne McIntyre Memorial International Ballet Scholarship is a dance festival, held in Port Macquarie, N.S.W, Australia and is designed to benefit young talented dancers of all ages & levels to further develop their dance education through various scholarship grants both in Australia & overseas.

Annually, selected dancers will be offered scholarship grants to attend major Australian, New Zealand, European & American Dance institutions for workshops & cash awards may also be won - click here to view our  2008 Scholarship Grants 

2010 Competition Dates

...To be announced...

 Special Guest Adjudicators

NADIA THOMPSON - Ballet Mistress of The Milwaukee Ballet, WI-USA

JUAN CARLOS PENUELA - Ballet Master of The National Ballet of Colombia, InColballet, COLOMBIA-SOUTH AMERICA

- additional Guest Adjudicators to be announced -

Special Guest Artists

JENNIFER GRAPES & DARREN C. McINTYRE - Dancers of The Milwaukee Ballet, WI-USA

- additional Guest Artists to be announced -

The 2010 Event categories are as follows: 

The Junior Scholarship – for Dancers aged 9yrs to 13yrs

 The Senior Scholarship – for Dancers aged 14yrs and above

Both Senior & Junior Scholarship entrants will partake in a masterclass & audition process.

All Senior Scholarship entrants are requested to submit a one page CV / Resume and Photo prior to their audition / master class.

Finalists are then selected from both the Junior and Senior Scholarship sections and will be invited to dance a solo of their choice at the Gala presentation from which they may be eligible to win cash awards or scholarship grants both for within Australia and overseas.